Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A lavish nine-part series about the life & times of the child born Nancy Langhorne in Danville Virginia on 19th May 1879 who would become the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons introduce a Private Member&s Bill that raised to 18 the age qualification for buying alcohol & vote against the Government in May 1940
- helping Winston Churchill to become Prime Minister More than just a biography of the first ever woman to sit in the House of Commons this epic series on the life of Nancy Astor is a compelling story of rags to riches romance & heartache A story that begins in post-civil war Virginia follows Nancy through a disastrous teenage marriage to an arrogant & conceited playboy & finds her divorced & a single mother by the time she is 24 Only a move to England offers a way out of her misery Witty & charming Nancy became the focus for the country&s most eligible bachelors including the man she takes as her second husband Waldorf Astor – one of the richest men in the world Moving into the lavish stately home Cliveden Nancy enjoys life as a prominent hostess for the social elite but when Astor surrenders his seat in the Commons for a place in the Lords a door opens that will seal Nancy’s place in history forever…